The fact is the club has not been turned around at all there has been some papering over the cracks done in the short term.

The team is so poor from back to front it's painful and it beggars belief that a team could spend so much money on so much crap AND HAS CONTINUED TO DO IT. Walsh is terrible end of.

The team today....

Pickford- no real improvement on what we had in all honesty but shouts a lot so we excuse his deficenciesMartina- crapKeane- crapWilliams - crapKenny- average and too youngRooney- too old so crapDavies- hit and miss but youngGueye - good player but not doing it atmWalcott- looks our best playerSiggy- 45m ?Niasse- well it's niasse.Tosan- fooking carthorse running in quicksand..another Walsh gem.

You could quite reasonably argue that other managers would've been able to get a similar amount of points from the games since he came in. No arguments there, but we didn't seem to have any plan about appointing those people.

However, that is different to the fact that we were in a big mess when he came in. I think you could quite easily make a case for us being the worst team in the league for a not insignificant period of time this season. We offered so little up front and were so ridiculously fragile at the back...I mean just look at our goal difference, it reflects the reality of our season. There has been tiny handful of games where we were really deserved winners, with plenty of others you wonder how we picked up points.

We are still in a decent mess, both in terms of the squad and off the field issues. We've just managed to be a little less crap. I mean for a little while today, Newcastle were just 3 pts different to us and we're almost into March. We still can't win away from home and we only have 5 games left at home, of which perhaps 2 or 3 of those (Brighton, Newcastle and possibly Southampton) you'd think were games we should be winning. I can't imagine anyone here is particularly confident about playing Liverpool or Man City at home and expecting points.

So, I guess from that I say I don't think Allardyce should be particularly proud, however the fact is really there is currently very little between us and any of the teams from 7th downwards. We get by on individual moments, but things need to change if we hope to compete and not have a repeat this sort of season again next year.

We need a better manager, and we definitely need better recruitment. That's just the beginning.

Should be used to it. Same level of shite which also came out from Moyes, Martinez and Koeman. Martinez probably taking it further than the others.

Moyes, for all his faults, was never this bad. At least we had shape, and a defence. If he had come in instead of Sam we would have improved much more .Martinez best period was built on the foundation Moyes left . Since then we have gone to shit, the whole structure is rotten and needs replacing, but with quality.

The fact is the club has not been turned around at all there has been some papering over the cracks done in the short term.

The team is so poor from back to front it's painful and it beggars belief that a team could spend so much money on so much crap AND HAS CONTINUED TO DO IT. Walsh is terrible end of.

The team today....

Pickford- no real improvement on what we had in all honesty but shouts a lot so we excuse his deficenciesMartina- crapKeane- crapWilliams - crapKenny- average and too youngRooney- too old so crapDavies- hit and miss but youngGueye - good player but not doing it atmWalcott- looks our best playerSiggy- 45m ?Niasse- well it's niasse.Tosan- fooking carthorse running in quicksand..another Walsh gem.

To quote the film, Vanilla Sky, 'every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around'.

And I agree with that. There's no such thing as being doomed, in my view. Essentially you just need to start making better decisions from now, and that applies equally to a person's life or running a club.

We're not resigned to our fate. We just need to start making better decisions and this season can be viewed as a crazy aberration, and nothing more. Lots of clubs have had awful seasons and terrible managerial appointments and then quickly reversed it and left it behind them.

We need to view it like that, quite dispassionately.

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Jeff: That's not the way to win.Kathie: Is there a way to win?Jeff: There's a way to lose more slowly.

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Brian Glanville , a respected journalist and not a fan on a downer wrote in this months World Soccer Magazine . Under the strapline " Allardyces time has been and gone " he wrote "Evertons poor recent form has posed serious questions about the competence of SamAllardyce , brought in to revitalise the team after the abrupt departure of Ronald Koeman . After one or two useful victories, which at least seemed to keep the spectre of relegation at bay, he has left both Wayne Rooney and Gylfi Siggurdsson on the bench of late .They could hardly have done any worse in a team which has been overwhelmed at times .It also surprised me that he loaned talented winger Ademola Lookman to RB Leipzig of the Bundesliga where he has made an immediate impact . He is a player I have much admired for his pace , control and efficacy since his early days at Charlton where he developed . I feel Allardyce as a Manager has passed his meridian but it would be very expensive for Everton to fire him now . And whom would they bring in ? "

There is also an excellent article entitled 25 next Generation coaches but I think I will start another thread to discuss those on the list . Any of them would require a bit of forward thinking but those at the helm of our club don't seem to have any .